Duck United Methodist Church: Duck United Methodist Church: The mission statement of the Missions Committee of Duck UMC:
"To involve the congregation of Duck UMC in spreading the
Gospel through witness and service throughout the world."
Hubert Humphrey once said "the moral test of a society is how that society treats those who
are in the dawn of life...the children; those who are in the twilight of life...the elderly; those
who are in the shadows of life...the sick, the needy, the handicapped." Through our
apportionment payments to the Conference, our Advance Specials (Rainbow Covenant)
giving, and our local ministries, we at Duck church have a history of reaching out to these
peoples that Hubert so eloquently named.
These are trying times for our great little white church at the seashore. Giving during the first
half of 2009 has fallen sharply. By the time you read this, our Administrative Council will
have met in emergency session and made some very difficult decisions aimed at enabling us to
live within our resources for the balance of the 2009 budget year.
Yet, the need for us to reach out through our missions program to those less fortunate than
we is ever increasing. We know that this downturn has affected some of us more than
others. Perhaps, those among us more fortunate to be able to weather the storm as we wait
for the "stimulus program" to start "stimulating,” can pick up some of the slack.
This is the Missions Committee's challenge to the congregation: those who can pick it up a bit write a check, in whatever amount, annotated either Rainbow Covenant or Local Outreach. Your rewards will be great! Let us not fall victim to the thought that the needs are so vast that my little bit will not make a difference. Through the structures of our phenomenal United Methodist Church, every mission dollar we give is put directly to work in mission.
On a more joyful note, our Caring Hands Ministry is very much alive. They power washed two houses in preparation for IMPACT youth to do some further prep and painting. One of the homes requires much more work than the youth could accomplish during IMPACT week, so Caring Hands will be finishing the painting and making other repairs during August/early September. The house is owned and occupied by a gentleman who has been paralyzed from the waist down and bedridden for sixteen years! He has very limited resources...a perfect fit of a project for Caring Hands. Anyone who would like to join the crew as we finish? Please contact Hal Denny for additional information.